diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index adbf16c0a3..3430eead3e 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -23183,11 +23183,12 @@ Janus 23 Jan 2005
 Bruce 24 Jan 2005
     - Fixes from Christian Beer for ops pages to approve profiles and
       to errors in the previous 20/next 20 links when 'additional 
-      clauses' is non-empty.
+      clauses' is non-empty. Restore missing project_footer() function.
 
     html/
         inc/
             db_ops.inc
             profile.inc
-
+        project.sample/
+            project.inc
 
diff --git a/html/project.sample/project.inc b/html/project.sample/project.inc
index d0a00c2681..7f4e013cce 100644
--- a/html/project.sample/project.inc
+++ b/html/project.sample/project.inc
@@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ function project_banner($title) {
     ";
 }
 
+function project_footer($show_return, $show_date) {
+    echo "<br><hr noshade size=1><center>";
+    if ($show_return) {
+        echo "<a href=".URL_BASE.">Return to ".PROJECT." main page</a><br>\n";
+    }
+    echo "<br><br>Copyright &copy; ".date("Y ").COPYRIGHT_HOLDER."</center>\n";
+    if ($show_date) {
+        echo "<font size=-2 color=bbbbbb>Generated ",time_str(time()),"</font>\n";
+    }
+}
+
 // NOTE: These functions appear here and not in profile.inc because they contain
 // project-specific information that needs to be set by the project administrators.